Quote by Soren Kierkegaard
Life can only be understood backwards but it must be lived forward

Life can only be understood backwards but it must be lived forwards. – Soren Kierkegaard

Other quotes by Soren Kierkegaard

Not just in commerce but in the world of ideas too our age is putting on a veritable clearance sale. Everything can be had so dirt cheap that one begins to wonder whether in the end anyone will want to make a bid. – Soren Kierkegaard

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Age
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People commonly travel the world over to see rivers and mountains, new stars, garish birds, freak fish, grotesque breeds of human they fall into an animal stupor that gapes at existence and they think they have seen something. – Soren Kierkegaard

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Travel
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In addition to my other numerous acquaintances, I have one more intimate confidant. My depression is the most faithful mistress I have known — no wonder, then, that I return the love. – Soren Kierkegaard

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Depression
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Other Quotes from
Experience
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I was quite able at the insignificant work I did in MI6, but absolutely dysfunctional in my domestic life. I had no experience of fatherhood. I had no example of marital bliss or the family unit. – John le Carre

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Experience

Experience is the teacher of all things. – Julius Caesar

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Experience

You may count on Mexicos support, since your commitment to the noblest causes of mankind and your vast experience are and will be invaluable in enabling us, together, to achieve a better world. – Vicente Fox

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Experience

I had great faith in Irish actors, that theyd be hip to the whole theatre thing, and they are. I had no illusions of coming over here as some kind of big shot. Its been a learning experience for me too. – Christopher Meloni

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Experience

Random Quotes

A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer. – Robert Frost

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Justice & Law

A statistician made a few calculations and discovered that since the birth of our nation more lives had been lost in celebrating independence than in winning it. – Curtis Billings

It seems to me that those songs that have been any good, I have nothing much to do with the writing of them. The words have just crawled down my sleeve and come out on the page. – Joan Baez

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Singing

In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don’t. – Blaise Pascal

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Faith